Quick Change Mill Tooling Upgrade For The Mill (Mark 2)

G'day everyone,

I recently made a video where I made some quick change mill tooling for the mini mill. The old system of swapping out tooling using a simple ER 32 collet chuck was time consuming and cumbersome.

The new quick change mill tooling worked by using individual holders which held a ER 20 collet which hold the cutting tool. The holders would be able to be quickly indexed into the mill using a morse taper collet.

In the last video I used the lathe to create the individual tool holders, however I ran into issues regarding run out, due to the limitations of the lathe.

In this video I will replace the home made tool holders with import tool holders which I bought for an affordable price. I hope you enjoy the video.

Cheers

#machining #DIY #millingmachine

Mill: Sieg x2.7l
Lathe: Sieg c3 7x14 Mini Metal Lathe

Timestamps
0:00 - Recap From The Previous Video
0:40 - Issues I Ran Into
1:38 - New Tooling Approach
2:51 - Modifying The Tool Holder
4:33 - Modifying The Tool Holders Montage
5:37 - Assembling The Tool holder & 3/4" Holders
6:31 - Testing The Tooling

Funky Boxstep
Kevin MacLeod

[slartimus]

I was expecting an excruciatingly long (albeit sped up) hacksawing of those shanks, and was _so_ surprised when the angle grinder came out instead. 😄

[noisemaker]

I've been following along for a while now and I've gotta say the presentation has come a long way. Beautiful video work, mate

[jakubkopec]

Great idea. This is perfect size and cost for hobby shop. Now it is time for making of the power drawbar (hand powered).

[guitarchitectural]

Awesome, I did something similar for my lathe tailstock. ER16 "motor shaft" collet holders with 10mm steel bar cut to length for the shaft. Makes it quick and easy to change between my usual drill bits in the tailstock!!

[darrylwhitman]

real nice idea, I will fallow your lead an make some, please keep the videos' coming, thank you ..

[nexusofice]

Making your own tooling is always fun. Imo more fun than the projects you use them for sometimes.

[klerulo]

Appreciate the homage to Project Binky!

[TheLastTater]

Nice work! They came out great for that price.

[JETHO]

Your .01mm is impressive. That equates to .00039 inches. You can't ask for better than that on a small mill.

[kingkasma]

I have a tipp for you wrap wire around your threats when u want to clamp on it

[madguernseyboy]

great job ! Love it
I might copy that one day

[robertwalker]

Good work, getting pretty flash with the multi screen video too.

[ferlan]

I would like to know if the z (tool length) is repeatable when you take the holder off and back on. I'm thinking I could use this on my Cnc for faster manual tool changes..
Thanks!

[HM-Projects]

Nice value for $12. I gave up on it and ended up just making or buying MT3 taper ER holders. I have a dud set of MT3 spring collets, gave up trying to get a good one.

[ferrumignis]

Have you tried using roughing cutters in your machine? If so does it significantly increase the depth of cut you can make?

[AERuffy]

I went with a MT3 to Tormach TTS adapter to ER20 collet set for my mini mill.

[DR-brgb]

What's the Z- offset variation or error that you get with each tool change?

[mrayco]

I like the way you presented your vedio thank you

[wizrom]

Wow $12 each... can't argue with that! 🙂

[idontwantcorporateretaliat]

Can you provide a link to seller store? I'm having a hard time finding import tooling w/decent runout.